BlameThePeacock

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] BlameThePeacock 5 points 4 days ago

These companies are going to "announce" that they're reshoring to the US, then drag every single heel they have until Trump leaves office.

There's no way they actually bring the factories back, just to get screwed over completely when the tariffs are lifted by the next president.

[–] BlameThePeacock 29 points 5 days ago (17 children)

He's not wrong.

We're still a bunch of greedy monkeys, and no amount of education or "proper parenting" can fully override the base biology all the time for every person.

As much as it would be great to be better, we aren't even close.

[–] BlameThePeacock 27 points 6 days ago

Useless unless corporations are not able to own properties either, because its trivial to get around by investing in a company which then buys the property.

Corporations have to be able to own at least rental buildings, they're not viable to build otherwise.

At the end of the day though, this won't really matter, there is enough money inside Canada to keep prices rising from real estate investments anyways.

[–] BlameThePeacock 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I mean, as a group, both Asian groups I have experience with (Japanese and Chinese) are extremely racist (especially against other Asians) on average.

They also tend to be wealthier, and would benefit more from the tax breaks that Conservatives tend to be spouting.

[–] BlameThePeacock 3 points 1 week ago

People do not benefit from limiting trade either, because its not the trading that's the problem.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 1 week ago

This is why affordable housing will never happen.

People are far too greedy to even give up parking spaces, let alone the equity in their home in order to bring homes down to an affordable rate.

[–] BlameThePeacock 14 points 1 week ago

I'm going to go with restaurant meals.

Any restaurant that brings in prepared food from a central location frozen/pre-cooked/etc. is terrible.

[–] BlameThePeacock 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As opposed to the party that IS it?

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not a doctor, talk to one.

[–] BlameThePeacock 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He killed the market, let a few buddies know he was going to reverse it so they would buy stuff up cheap, then reversed it.

Literally hundreds of billions of dollars in value was just lost/made by various people in this pump and dump(dump and pump?) scheme.

[–] BlameThePeacock 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] BlameThePeacock 19 points 1 week ago

I mean, good for having some staples, but that's not really planning for a recession. That's more planning for an extended natural disaster or full on collapse of society.

You're far better off spending your money on things that will improve your likelihood of staying employed (or getting new employment) through the recession, the price of those staples will be affordable as long as you have any income.

Getting a secondary job in a less-likely to be impacted industry and getting trained up now, or taking specific courses at a local college focused on a secondary skillset will be the most useful.

 

Extremely unfortunate situation.

 

Intent to injure?

Based on that call, any sort of pushing or shoving should be called.

 

Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.

The conservative parties that won in the UK didn't manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn't manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.

This crisis isn't caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It's caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.

You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It's impossible. That's literally just a pyramid scheme.

Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn't do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.

So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.

 

In case anyone was wondering what happened at the grocery stores over the last couple days.

 

I love Mattias Krantz and his wacky music projects.

 

Because reasons?

 

Somewhat clickbait title, it went from 80% to 89% of new unit starts for this one month period compared to last year.

Apartment units have been the majority of new units for more than a decade now.

 

More technical issues. The ferries are starting to become a real issue here on the island.

view more: ‹ prev next ›